I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Christ’s Atonement provides more than an opportunity to live a happy life later

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.